Research/Policy Analyst
Organization: Trayas Foundation
Location: We are currently a fully remote team, and hope to stay that way for as long as we can.
Industry: Policy
Type: 2 years (contract-may be extended)
Salary: NA
Description: NA
Responsibilities:
- Regulatory analysis: Place regulation historically and evaluate it from the perspective of economics, history, anthropology, political science, and common sense.
- Study centre-state relationships: Track how states do rule-making and how centre-state dynamics work out.
- Identify best practices: Study regulation and regulation making across states to identify best/average/worst practices.
- Work with secondary data: Survey datasets including government’s administrative data, third-party data sets, literature, government and legal documents.
- When all else fails, collect primary data: Through interviews with government officials, individuals, and experts or observations.
- Draft recommendations: Once you have developed expertise, do what experts do—make recommendations.
- Write, write, write: Analyse and interpret information to produce error-free, concise research products for different audiences: academic papers, presentations, short policy briefs, and opinion pieces.
- Visualise what you write: Create graphics for the dissemination of ideas in engaging ways.
- Collaborate with advocacy organisations and government partners, build functional and sector specific networks, present research to government stakeholder
- Stay up to date: Be on top of the current and pertinent policy and research issues by regularly reviewing media articles, blogs and government announcements.
- When all is over, disseminate: Participate in and organise dialogues and conferences; write opinion pieces on research undertaken for external publication
Educational requirements:
- Analysts: Bachelor's degree from a reputed university
- Senior Analysts: MA/MSc Economics/Statistics/Law/Political Science/Sociology/Political Economy/Public Policy
Experience requirements:
- At least two years of research experience from a think tank, law firm. media house, research institution, government or consulting firm
- Published/unpublished academic research (academic papers, reports, blogs in own name)
- Open to working with freshers if skills, attributes and motivation align.
Skills:
- NA
Application Instructions:
Disclaimer:
- Candidates with Requisite Experience Only apply that too with relevant cover letter.
- The openings provided here is meant for information purposes only. Please cross-verify the details before applying.
Date Posted: 2021-03-21
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